Kyiv. Russia has kidnapped the mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov. This claim has been made by the Ukrainian authorities. The announcement was first made by the deputy head of the presidential office, Kirillo Timoshenko, in a social media post on Friday night.
The Ukrainian parliament said in a tweet on Friday that “a group of 10 Russians kidnapped the mayor of Melitopol. He refused to cooperate with the enemy.”
Condemning the abduction, the country’s foreign ministry called on the “international community to immediately respond to the abduction of Ivan Fedorov and other civilians and to increase pressure on Russia to end its barbaric war against the people of Ukraine.”
On February 25, the second day of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine, Russian troops entered the city in the southeast.
In his new video address, President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday accused Russia of taking the mayor hostage, saying Moscow was now resorting to terror tactics. Today is the 17th day of the war.
—AnyTV News
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